Word: germane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are, for instance, few top-notch German realists although the 18th and early 19th century are full of interesting figures. The concentrator must also be prepared to tolerate the particularly academic approach of the department...
...German languages and Literature is one of the fields to which the University points when it expresses concern that Harvard's resources are badly utilized because undergraduates tend to drift into a few huge departments...
There is generally more faculty personnel in the German department than there are concentrators. Besides four permanent appointees and an assistant professor, there is a substantial staff composed of men who spend part of their time teaching language courses and are delighted to help students with some of the less prosaic elements in the field...
...would probably be a mistake to dive into German as a concentrator without some acquaintance with the writers likely to be encountered. Germany has produced a few literary giants which are a delight but, especially during the last hundred years, it has nourished writers less interesting and satisfactory to some students than their counterparts in France, America, Russia, and England...
...Stalingrad (TIME, Nov. 1, 1948), Theodor Plievier, German novelist, wrote what still remains the most powerful novel of World War II. Leaning on that fact, his U.S. publishers have now issued an "adaptation" of two earlier Plievier novels written in the '30s, and called it The World's Last Corner. The stories, clumsily adapted, add nothing to the reputation of the man who wrote Stalingrad, but they have several lively moments, and show something of what Plievier was up to before the Wehrmacht rolled into Russia...